Object Details
Description (Brief)
Storyboard for a Wilkins Coffee commercial featuring the characters Wilkins and Wontkins, created by Jim Henson. The storyboard is made of series of four consecutive pencil drawings on custom-printed and perforated paper, with four dialogue boxes beneath. In the commercial, the puppet character Wilkins is hanging wallpaper. When the Wontkins puppet enters the picture and says that he doesn't drink Wilkins Coffee, the Wilkins puppet then pastes Wontkins on to the wall, behind the wallpaper, stating "The place here looks a lot better with all the bad spots covered up!"
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Terry Atlas
date made
1960
ID Number
2019.0131.01
accession number
2019.0131
catalog number
2019.0131.01
Object Name
storyboard
Physical Description
paper; graphite (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 8 in x 18 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 46.99 cm
place made
United States: Maryland
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Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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Jim Henson
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Puppetry
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1952807